Omaha daily bee., 1887-07-30
STATE AND TERRITORY.

colds Its efficacy has been proved in
thousands Of cases. All druggists.
STATE AND TERRITORY.
Nebraska Jottings.
The Otoe county fair is booked for Sep.
tember $3.50, at Syracuse.
Mrs. Hurst, at Plum Creek, died from
heart disease induced by fright caused by
lightning.
Creameries are growing rapidly in
favor, both with the farmer and butter
consumer.
A stock farm of 400 acres has been
Cattle company near Grand Island.
The corner stone of the Congregational
church at Weeping Water was laid Thurs
day. The building will cost $4,000.
Father Klllian, pastor of the Catholic
church at Harrington, has retired from
the pulpit to tackle the law. He has set
tied down to statutary diet at Blair.
The Fremont normal school and busi-
ness college has been sold for SO, 900 to
Profs. N. E. Leach OF st. Paul, George
Kellar of Hooper, G. A. Leach and II. E.
Wnnard of Iowa.
North Platte is offered three-story
brick hotel, 132x88. for bonus of $40, 900.
The offer has received favorable re.
ready been subscribed.
Neils Hansen, living six miles from
Grand Island, had his team killed by
lightning, while plOwing in O field, last
Wednesday. Hansen was seriously
shocked, but will recover.
The large hearted residents Of Holt
county paid graceful tribute TO Gov
ernor Thayer during hls trip through the
county Thursday. The people turned
out at all the stations to cheer him on his
way, eliminating in an ovation at
The mournful cry goes up in Lincoln.
"Whither, brethren, are we driftingY
Heretofore Omaha has had a monopoly
of the editorial harmony business, but the
capital city has crowded to the front
and routed the metropolis. In
variety OF weapons used and fervency OF
application, our c's display aversatillty
hardly expected from that quarter. In
less than a week the editors of the New
Republic and the Free Press have been
laid up from the effects of thumpings by
whip and fist, the editor of the Staatz
Anzeiger jailed. while Calhoun meditates
| a $50. 900 libel raid on the journal. Amid
this crush of skulls and bodily pain comes
| plorer, us life worth living?'
| North Platte was vigorously busted by
young hurricane last Saturday. A
horse was killed, two injured and four
wagon wheels crushed in town. On
reaching the hills south of town it began
to throw hail, and for a distance of tif-
teen miles wrought the greatest destruc:
ton to crops. Corn standing over head
high was pounded till stumps only foot
or so high told where the crop was
was beaten to the ground and hacked
till the stems looked like tow; potato
vines hardly showed where the patch was
| melons, pumpkins and such truck shared
the general ruin. So great was the quan
tity of hail that fell that the next day al
sundown 1t could still be taken up il
shovelfuls. Twenty-four farmers los
everything they had out doors. Some
damage, though not so extensive, wa
done by this storm IN the north part o.
the county.
Iowa Items.
The Atlantic canning factory has spen
$4,000 in improvements.
Miss Eaton, OF Mt. Holyoke, Mass, 4
the new preceptress at Ames college.
Having failed to get Armour and Cud
ahy, Sioux City is now offering tempting
bait to the fowlers.
The Driving Park association at Carol
offers So, 500 IN premiums, races occurrin!
August 80, "a and 25.
The river front at Sioux City Is bein.
cut off IN huge chunks by the treacherou
whiripools of the Missouri.
Dunlap will vote August on the ques
ton of bonding for $4,000 to dig an ar
tesian we'll and put in waterworks.
|, A Mrs. WIedman, of Davis county, tro
on potato bug with her bare foot
crushed the insect and the poison kille,
her within two hours.
The state board of health has issue
regulations in the bohemian language
because of calls in jackson and Lin
| counties.
The third annual reunion OF the sui
viving members of the Eighth Iowa ca,
airy will be held at Clarinda August 8
and September I. The twenty.ninth au
nual fair of Page countr will be held tn
same time.
Attorney General Baker has sued tn
Des Moines Leader for criminal Iibe
1t charges that General Baker tampere
with the Jury in the Pierce case. an
that juries have been packed SO tha
every member was republican or pr'
hIbitonist.
The Congregational ASSOCIATION has 81
lected Fargo as the site for the college.
: Union county has in round number
, $4,000 horses, 10000 cattle and l0,0(
swine.
Eight manufacturing establishments
Yapkton pay out annually in wag'
e35, ,3o3.
The contract has been let for the o.
tension of the Elkhorn Valley road frol
Rapid to Deadwood,
Commissioner Mcclure estimates frol